Theme: war
The War of the Worlds / Anxiety and Normalcy
He was now very anxious on my account, and disturbed at the evident magnitude of the trouble. His mind was inclined to run, even as mine had run on Sa...
Gulliver's Travels / Absurdity of Conflict
Which two mighty powers have, as I was going to tell you, been engaged in a most obstinate war for six-and-thirty moons past. It is allowed on all han...
The War of the Worlds / Technological Vulnerability
It would seem that a leg of the tripod had been smashed by one of the shells. The whole of the second volley flew wide of the Martian on the ground, a...
The War of the Worlds / Desolation and Renewal
And all being quiet throughout the afternoon, we started about five o’clock, as I should judge, along the blackened road to Sunbury. In Sunbury, and a...
Pride and Prejudice / Courage and Conflict
They walked towards the Lucases’, because Kitty wished to call upon Maria; and as Elizabeth saw no occasion for making it a general concern, when Kitt...
Gulliver's Travels / Power and Governance
I was curious to know how this prince, to whose dominions there is no access from any other country, came to think of armies, or to teach his people t...
The War of the Worlds / Destruction and Capture
And I saw one, one day, out by Wandsworth, picking houses to pieces and routing among the wreckage. So soon as they’ve settled all our guns and ships,...
Gulliver's Travels / Imperial Vulnerability
The empress’s apartment on fire by an accident; the author instrumental in saving the rest of the palace. The empire of Blefuscu is an island situated...
The War of the Worlds / Battlefield Contrast
Everyone stood arrested by the sudden stir of battle, near us and yet invisible to us. Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcer...
Frankenstein / Inner Turmoil
My internal being was in a state of insurrection and turmoil; I felt that order would thence arise, but I had no power to produce it.
Pride and Prejudice / Interpersonal Tensions
Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people’s feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.” “And do you impute it to either of those...
Frankenstein / Moral Ambivalence
Felix visited the grate at night and made known to the prisoner his intentions in his favour. The Turk, amazed and delighted, endeavoured to kindle th...
Gulliver's Travels / Motivations of War
Sometimes a war is entered upon, because the enemy is too strong; and sometimes, because he is too weak. Sometimes our neighbours want the things whic...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Marine Exploration
At this moment the peak was clearly defined against the sky. The _Nautilus_, diving again under the water, approached the coast, which was only some f...
Gulliver's Travels / Fear and Resistance
The enemy was so frightened when they saw me, that they leaped out of their ships, and swam to shore, where there could not be fewer than thirty thous...
The War of the Worlds / Desolation Aftermath
In a few minutes there was, so far as the soldier could see, not a living thing left upon the common, and every bush and tree upon it that was not alr...
The War of the Worlds / Technological Horror
The Cardigan men had tried a rush, in skirmishing order, at the pit, simply to be swept out of existence. Then the monster had risen to its feet and h...
The War of the Worlds / Sound of Conflict
He would probably have remained longer had it not been for the sound of guns that began about that hour in the south. As if in answer, the ironclad se...